Ravi's Blog

I have so many commenters telling me to get back to my fucking self. Pardon my profanity, but thats a message I got just now, asking me to stop posting PLR articles for traffic and linking and write shit about myself.

Well, here goes.

I, like most Indians, have a liking for Punjabi Pop. Not garbage like Daler Mehendi and Gurdas Mann. But music of higher levels of Bally Sagoo and Stereo Nation and stuff.

Taz-Mania was an album released by Stereo Nation, and heres my most favorite song in that album. Searched for it all over as I lost a hard drive and all my music in it some time last year, and am in an attempt to rebuild my entire collection. And guess where I found it. Raaga.com, the shittiest site I knew 8 years ago. Offering good quality streaming now, and they let me embed the player as well.

We live in the age of instant coffee and the equally instant World Wide Web. As a result most people expect things to happen instantly including success in online business. While in some instances this lack of patience can prove to be a major stumbling block, in other instances the very nature of the web provides for immediate results.

Take web directory submissions as an example. The reason why they have always been so popular is because they work rather well in giving any webmaster immediate results for their promotional efforts.

How Web Directory Submissions Work
There are literally thousands of web directory services on the World Wide Web. Many of them have an option for free submission and another for paid submission. Now the really attractive thing about directories is the fact that they tend to have respectably high Page Ranks (PR). Secondly in most cases, when a link pointing to your site is placed at a web directory it will tend to last forever, meaning that it will also drive traffic in the direction of your site for the same length of time.

So it is highly desirable to have links in every web directory that you can find, pointing in the direction of your site because you will always end up with twofold benefits, namely immediate traffic and long-term traffic.

How To Submit Your Site To A Web Directory
Submission of your web site or blog site URL to a web directory can be done either manually or by using software.

There are a number of webmasters who have enjoyed amazing success and high traffic by constantly submitting their sites to web directories. What they usually do is to purpose to submit their sites to a certain number of web directories every day. Even with a target of ten per day, the numbers quickly add up and at the end of one month you will find yourself with 300 links. At the end of the year you will have a whooping 3,600.

Then there are those who rely heavily on software to automatically submit their sites to a high number of web directories. For example there is this software that will give you a staggering 750,000 links almost instantly. With a large number of links like that, it is hard to imagine you ever having a problem of inadequate traffic trickling to your site.

The Problem With Manual Submission
While it is true that many webmasters and bloggers have succeeded in the past with manual submissions, the truth is that it has a number of problems and obstacles, these days.

To start with the whole process is very cumbersome and extremely time consuming. The reality is that submitting even just to 10 web directories daily would take up a lot of valuable time from a webmasters day. This is the reason why software that undertakes this vital chore is so popular on the Internet.

The Dangers Of Submitting To Directories With Software
Now even if you were to decide to submit your site pronto to web directories using software, you still need to be very careful. On of the reasons for this is that not all software you come across will be as successful in doing what you are told it is capable of doing. Not only that, some submission software could be designed to do things that upset site engines, meaning that you can easily find that instead of getting the high traffic that you had anticipated, you will get your site banned at leading search engines, thus effectively shutting down any traffic that you would have received directly from search engines.

What You Need To Do To Succeed With Directory Submissions
For you to succeed with directory submissions, you must first understand that this is a game of volumes. The higher the number of sites that you submit your URL to, the better the result. This means that the best option is to go for automatic software submission using software. However you also need to be very careful to deal only with very reputable sites when it comes to finding the right software for this vital chore.

By observing these rather simple rules, you will find yourself well on the way to success with your site and chances of finding really successful software for submission will be high.

And did I mention that my blog has been mentioned for the first time in its history on a popular newspaper in Delhi, a part of the India Today group called Mail Tdoay? Well, it had been, the day before Diwali. I had been busy for some time, and I couldnt update the blog about it. Here is the link to the article. The article is a stub, but still, I did manage to get a bit of traffic from it, and yes, it is a sign that my blog is getting popular. Why else would a journalist approach me and ask me for an interview?

Time was short, and I didn’t like any of the picutres that were taken, so just like the paper’s designers, I too decided not to print photos of mine.

Recently you might be finding a lot of websites about human resourcing and stuff with keyword optimized articles that talk nothing but bullshit. You will find optimally placed google adsense in between them, and you will also notice that the sites get a lot of traffic, and that the sites are mostly from India.

The most of the Inidan population today are jobseekers, and at a country which has the world’s second largest population, there are a very good number of people who search for jobs on the internet, and google will lead them all to one of these sites.

When the people come to such sites whne they find that the write up is completely bullshit, they might spot a useful link on the page and just click it and carry on following that link, and the owner of the site gets paid. Some of these people might think that the site shows different links at times and so they might come back again and again to clikc on that links that lead them to hope, and the site owner will get paid again and again. The job descriptions on these sites are very vague and will mark requirements for people from all categories only because the site gets all sort of visitors.

I think google should regulate such sites and help reduce the inflation in the advertisers costs.

I have my hosting with hostgator. Though I used to be the so called managing director of Indyahozting, I preferred my sites to be somewhere else when I moved out of the company, and so I chose hostgator apart from everyone else The name sounded cool, and I know that the site is in existence for the past 7 years. Well, the deal is I pay them $10 every month, and they give me a hosting account on which I can host unlimited domains and create unlimited databases and use upto 600 GB of space. Wow, what more do I need? I asked them whats the catch, and they told me that I cannot use more than 25% of the servers resources, and that they have a dual xeon server with 4 gb ram and stuff. They refuse to tell me how much hard disk they have got. They cant have more than 4×500 gb hard drives raided together. Thats only 2 TB. How are they sharing 600 gb to each client hosted on this server? Bullshit. I know that as I too have been selling hosting for some time now.

There is no such thing as Unlimited. If there was something called unlimited, I would take one of these $10 accounts and give hosting free for everyone with a limit of 10 or 20 mb per user to host their static html files only, and that way I would attract millions and billions of users and there would be no way that hostgator’s servers can tolerate the load of traffic though I would manage to keep the processor load within 25% as there would be no php or any other resource consuming sites. Everything would be plain html.

They would have a serious problem in their hands. What would they do? They would find a bullshit way to get me out of their servers, and I would challenge them that I am lying within the bounds of their TOS. The only thing that they can do to get me off their servers is to use the clause that states Host Gator reserves the right to fuck any client off their servers at their will and that I agree completely to that.

Dont get fooled by these offers. Think. Spend $1 per site a month and get hosting from the smaller providers, and you will get more resources per site.